There is so much drama in this book, even before you add the vampires.
This makes brilliant 'get lost in another world for a few hours' reading.
Masquerade is full of exotic locations, lavish parties, and fabulously expensive designer clothes. She's more important in Masquerade, and you can see the desperation and insecurity that she has. For example, Mimi, Schuyler's arch-enemy, while being mean and selfish, is in fact an angel who is supposed to be seeking redemption. It builds on what happened in Blue Bloods, and some seemingly unimportant characters in the first book become more significant. Masquerade takes the characters further, and fleshes them out. I was, when I had read the first one, and then had a break of Blue Bloods before reading the second one. Because it does this, you have to read the first book first, otherwise you'll be lost. The first book, Blue Bloods, introduces the characters and the mythology. Masquerade is the second book in the Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz. Hidden behind the masks is a revelation that will forever change the course of a young vampire's destiny. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly under way for the Four Hundred Ball, an exclusive gala hosted by the city's wealthy, powerful, and unhuman - a true Blue Blood affair.īut it's at the after-party, a masquerade ball thrown by the cunning Mimi Force, that the real danger lurks. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help - her grandfather. Schuyler's mother, Allegra, is in a forced coma, wanting to remain that way after Schutyler's father dies.Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. The key to defeating them, Schuyler believes, rests with her missing grandfather, Lawrence, who is in Venice. Whereas the Bluebloods are fallen angels who live by a set of ethics, Silver Bloods swear allegiance to Lucifer.
Two months before, Schuyler's grandmother, Cordelia, is attacked and killed by Silver Blood vampires, the enemies of the Blue Bloods. Oliver is also Schuyler's human caretaker, known as a Conduit, and has convinced his father to let them accompany him on a business trip to Europe. Schuyler is in Venice, Italy with her best friend Oliver Hazard-Perry. Schuyler Van Alen, a fifteen-year-old Blue Blood vampire, is the last member of the New York Van Alen family, which had helped to create modern-day Manhattan.
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